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Rocio Gonzalez

Rocio Gonzalez Sanchez holds a BSc and MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a MSc in Water and Environmental Engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.

As a student, Gonzalez worked as a research assistant in the National Technological University in Buenos Aires and in the Department of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering at Spanish airline Iberia. From 2008 to 2012 she worked in different projects ranging from engineering systems design to aircraft manufacturing at Airbus UK, Airbus Spain and COMAC (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) in Beijing and Shanghai.

Gonzalez joined Masdar Institute in 2013, where she obtained her MSc in Water and Environmental Engineering. For two years prior to joining the SBRC, her research was focused on analyzing the UAE’s water resources and different water uses concluding with the development of the water budget for the country.